VISIT


Meaning of VISIT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪzɪt ]

( visits, visiting, visited)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you visit someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.

He wanted to visit his brother in Worcester...

Bill would visit on weekends.

VERB : V n , V

Visit is also a noun.

Helen had recently paid him a visit.

N-COUNT

2.

If you visit a place, you go there for a short time.

He’ll be visiting four cities including Cagliari in Sardinia...

Caroline visited all the big stores.

...a visiting truck driver.

VERB : V n , V n , V-ing

Visit is also a noun.

I paid a visit to my local print shop.

N-COUNT : usu N to n

3.

If you visit a website, you look at it. ( COMPUTING )

For details visit our website at www.cobuild.collins.co.uk.

VERB : V n

4.

If you visit a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer, you go and see them in order to get professional advice. If they visit you, they come to see you in order to give you professional advice. ( mainly BRIT )

If necessary the patient can then visit his doctor for further advice...

= see

VERB : V n

Visit is also a noun.

You may have regular home visits from a neonatal nurse.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

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